THE TRAVEL CLUB DRAMA FESTIVAL PINE FORESTS SOUTH AFRICANS FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ROAD TRANSPORT N.Z. GOLFERS AT HOME ORATORY CONTEST LEVIN DAIRY COMPANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 15

THE TRAVEL CLUB

DRAMA FESTIVAL

PINE FORESTS

SOUTH AFRICANS

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES

ROAD TRANSPORT

N.Z. GOLFERS AT HOME

ORATORY CONTEST

LEVIN DAIRY COMPANY

SUCCESSFUL YEAR

REMARKABLE GROWTH

The remarkable growth of the Wellington Travel Club during the short space of its existence was stressed by the president (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop), speaking at the annual meeting of the club last night. "The club has made, during the first, j years of its existence, most extra-1 ordinary progress," said Mr. Hislop. "We started with an initial meeting in the St. George Hotel building about a year ago, and the idea then put torward of starting this club met with considerable support. I do not think anybody there had the faintest hopes that the club would go ahead with the remarkable rapidity that has characterised its progress. We now, at the end of the year, have an actual membership of approximately 700, as well as a considerable waiting list, and I am practically certain that when we can provide at the different functions the necessary accommodation for the hiembers, that waiting list will be immediately absorbed' and another waiting list will take its place." They had had on many occasions, said Mr. Hislop, the opportunity of meeting interesting people of distinction who were visiting the country. The club was no doubt fulfilling a useful function in extending hospitality to guests, whether from overseas or from other parts of New Zealand. The balance-sheet, said Mr. Hislop, showed that not only had the club been a social success, but it had also | ended the year with its finances on the right side of the ledger. Mr. Hislop paid a special tribute to the work of Miss N. E. Donovan, the secretary. FEELING OF CONFIDENCE. Mr. G. G. Stewart, paying a tribute to the work of the executive, said that the 'members had been imbued with a wonderful feeling of confidence! which had enabled them to carry out their duties. The success, of the club during the past year was due in no small measure to the work of the ladies' committee. He also paid a tribute to Mr. Hislop, who had willingly given his assistance on any occasion when his services could be of benefit to the club. A member suggested that the club should have an office in the city, a question which he admitted depended larsely on finance. Mr. Stewart said that the executive had the-matter- under consideration. Mr. H. G. Miller endorsed previous speakers' tributes in regard to the work of Mr. T. M. Donovan and Miss Donovan, and also spoke highly of the assistance given the club by Mr. G. G. Stewart. Officers were elected as follows:— President, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop; vicepresents. Mrs. T. C. A. Hislop, Lady Roberts, Lady -Shirtcliffe, Lady Elliott, Mrs. Peter Fraser, Mrs. L. J. Schmitt. Sir Charles Norwood. Mr. G. H. Mackley. Colonel N. S. Falla, Mr. L. J. Schmitt, Mr. W. Blundell, Mr. G. G. Stewart, Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell, Sir Michael Myers. Lady -Myers. Sir Thomas Wilford, Lady Norwood. Sir James Elliott, and Mr. O. N. Gillespie; executive. Messrs. G. G. Stewart, W. H. Price, H. G. Miller, A. W. Wellsted, A. Leigh Hunt, T. M. Donovan,. Herbert F. Wood. S. J. Collett, O. A. Moller. R. H. Nimmo. and Edmund Anscombe; ladies' committee. Mesdames C. C. Bullock, H. D. Bennett, T. M. Donovan, Hepburn Dick, A. G. Fordham, J. I. Goldsmith. Walter Gray, Wallis Jackson, A. W. Mulligan, F. W. McAuley, Marshall.. Mac Donald, F. W. Ongley, H. B. Oakes, James Payne, Vernon Sutherland, G. G. Stewart, A. W. O. Travers, J. S. Vinsen. T. M. Wilkes. Len McKay, A. E. Bolt. S. Fernandez, George Castle, Misses Amy Kane, D. L. Tanner, and Dr. Maisie Gow; hon. auditors, Messrs. Clarke and Mullins; hon. solicitor, Mr. R. R Scott.

PROTEST AGAINST STATE ACTION

Whether the goods motors services if expropriated by the Government, are kept in operation, subsidiary to railways ■ requirements, or whether they are closed down to the extent of ninety'per cent, as competitive with the railways,, and on this point the Government has made contradictory statements and appears to be facing both ways, there is no doubt that users of transport will suffer inconvenience and hardship, says a statement by the New Zealand Road Transport Alliance. This, however, will be no more serious than the injustice of the Government's proposals in their incidence on the firms who have pioneered and built up the goods motor transport industry into the great public utility service it .is today. . . . It has not been until the last year or two that the operators of motor goods transport could confidently look lor a reasonable return to their long and expensive pioneering efforts. It seems both unreasonable and unjust that, having by their own unaided efforts built up an industry which by common consent is economic in service and useful to the business community, they should now be expropriated just at the time when a fair return to their past efforts appears to be in sight. These operators have given the best years of their business life to building up the goods motor transport industry into the nationally useful service that it is admitted even by the Government to be today. Everything they possess is tied up in the business, and they have naturally cut themselves and their capital off from other avenues of activity. It is not in the public interest that a legitimate industry should be destroyed, and the living of a large number of people wiped out in pursuit, of a more academic predilection for universal socialisation. Business men generally should take warning that if they suffer this injustice to happen without protest, the turn of others will surely come, and private industry and commerce will be destroyed piecemeal by Socialism in New Zealand. The Miinster of Transport has recently proclaimed in Australia that he remains an out-and-out Socialist, and in this matter he and his Government are running true to form.

(Special to the "Evening Post.") LEVIN, This Day. The annual meeting of Ihe Levin Dairy Company was held on Wednesday. There was a large attendance of shareholders. The chairman, Mr. S. A. Broadbelt. was in the chair. The annual report disclosed that the total cost per pound of bulterfat to f.o.b. tor manufacturing and marketing costs was 1.47 d. The increased costs to Ihe company as a result of the Government's legislation were approximately :|d per lb of butterfat. A motion moved by Mr. C.' Webb that the directors be recommended to support ihs compensated prices scheme was dafeated on a show of hands. The following directors were re-elected:--. Messrs. H. J. Lancaster, A. J. GimbleH, and T. G. Vincent.

SECOND MIGHT

JUDGE'S COMMENTS

The British Drama League held the second night of its annual festival before a large audience in the Concert Chamber last night. Four one-act plays were presented. Professor James Shelley, who is acting as adjudicator for the festival, gave particularly valuable criticism at the end of each play.

The first play was "Joint Owners in Spain," by Alice Brown, presented by the Pioneer Club Drama Circle.

Professor Shelley saiu that some plays act themselves; others were extremely difficult to aci. This play was an easy one to produce, but it had been quite well done. As was general with amateur performances there was too great a tendency to miss out the pauses. One of the players, the matron of the home, treated the inmates too much as equals instead of carrying on as the "Lord High ." Also, women in actual life did not complete their actions, then deliver their lines, and then carry on again with another action. "Take the case of washing up dishes—l know a lot about washing up dishes—at least I did before I was married; one speaks while the action is being performed, like this, and y this." Professor Shelley demonstrated.

The cast was as follows:—Mrs. Mitchell, Miss J. Forsyth; Mrs. Fullerton. Mrs. G. Perry; Miss Dyei, Mrs. Da vies; Mrs. Blair, Miss Woodhouse.

"Ladies in Waiting," by Wendy St. J. Maule. presented by the Wellington East Old' Girls' Dramatic Society, followed.

"In a hospital nurses and sisters go about as if they owned the earth. They are the last word in efficiency. Visitors feel (hat they are only being tolerated. The nurse in this play was not sufficiently an official," said Professor Shelley, when criticising "Ladies in Waiting." The judge said that two of the characters did not show the tense emotional strain that should have been present.

"Although wives may become so used to their husbands that their husbands become only a habit, when a wife is suddenly confronted with the fact that her husband has been—shall I say,' 'carrying on'—with a lovely young lady, her heart would be going at least 120; her emotion would be tense." Professor Shelley said that portraying such emotion was difficult, but if it were not difficult, he would not criticise. "I can easily praise and be popular with everyone, but not with myself."

The cast was as follows:—Fair visitor Ailsa Duff; dark visitor, Mary Machell; nurse, Mary Reeves; girl, Rae Sturrock; sister, Dorothy 'Luke; woman, , Ena Bell; garrulous visitor, Joyce Weeber. The producer was Margaret Cowan. The third play was "Private Lives" (first act), by Noel Coward, presented by the Pandora Musical and Dramatic Society.

"This play was not bubbly enough. Noel Coward is like champagne. His repartee is as quick as a machine-gun," observed Professor Shelley. "The actors were nothing like skilled enough in kissing or embracing. I will not demonstrate; but kissing on the stage is very difficult; it's quite easy off stage. In this play when one of the players says: 'What a nice skin you have.'" said the judge, "he massaged her arm. You don't do that in real life. Hands, by the way, can be very beautiful, but do not spread them out. In one loving embrace, they were spread out like Maori tikis, or as though the girl wanted to tell his fortune. The weeping also was not well done. Apart from a few points like these, it was a iolly good show."

The cast was as follows:—Sibyl Chase, Doris Hussey; Elyot Chase, Percy W. Cousins; Victor Prynne, Charles Denniston-Woods: Amanda Prynne, Gladys Morgan.

The Catholic Repertory Society presented the last play of the evening, "Ebb Tide," by Robert Lamber.

"This play was a difficult one from a producer's point, of view," said Professor Shelley. There were many characters, and they all had to be given something to do. ■ The words had to be appropriately prepared ahead. He cited an instance of necessary preparation in a play which he had produced in Manchester many years ago. The producer was responsible for these things. The producer should get some of the credit, but the actors always got the praise. This play was ■ not "nervy" enough. The tension was insufficient. On the whole, however, it was a very good production. The cast was as follows:—Sir John Hardcastle, X.C.. P. F. Games: Lady Hardcastle. Monica Neumann; Daphne, Suzanne Hughes; Dr. Clive Graham. M.D., L. P. Bourke; Julia Strickland, Celia Dwyer: Raymond Arnott, George Reid: Derek Young, H. Jones; Morley, J. Barnao. Producer, Miss M. Doolan.

LUCIFER TOURNAMENT

STRONG WELLINGTON ENTRY

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, July 10.

Playing with only seven clubs—a spoon and six irons—Lieutenant H. R. Hill, King's Own Scottish Borderers, who has been serving at Dares Salaam, easily won the Lucifer Golfing Society's Empire-overseas tournament at Waltop Pleath this week. On the 14 mark. Hill won the qualifying competition at Moor Park with 68 net, led the field of more than 100 competitors with a return of 4 up on the old course on the second day, and had the best score of the third day, 2 up on the new course, to bring his aggregate to 6 up for the 36 holes. Next was E. H. Dunsford (9), an electrical engineer from Calcutta, with all square, plus 1, 1 up.

A number of New Zealanders competed. Their scores were:—A. I. Johns fAuckland) (7), 71; F. S. Taylor (Christchurch) (6). 75; T. O. Walker (Te Awamutu) (8). 69: and D. H. Mackay (Wv nganui (181, 62, who qualified for the final rounds; and H. P. F. Blundell (Wellington) (5), 80; A. Douglass fWanganui) (7), 79; G. W. Magnus (Wellington) (11), 79; A. M. Anderson (Wellington) (14), 73; L. S. Thompson (Wellington) (13), 71; A. H Nicoll (Auckland) (7), 79; A. E. A. McDougall (Otago) (10), 89; T. A. Blyth (Wanaanui) (13). 70; R. B. Gibbons (Miramar) (8). 77; and D. Robertson (Shandon) (11), 78.

TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE

Eight speeches of interesting variety will be heard at the Training College Hall, Kelburn. tomorrow evening, comprising the first of the annual contests for the Training College oratory medal. The following are the speakers and their subjects:—Miss B. Macgregor. ''Sir Maui Pomare"; Miss J. Grainger. "Tagore and Indian Thought"; Miss P. Prideaux-Pridham, "Socrates"; Mr. D. Robinson. "An Empress and a Society Bluffed"; Mr. W. Mitchell, "The Classics in Education"; Mr. J. Saunders, \"Robert Louis Stevenson"; Mr. H. Henderson. -'Garibaldi"; Mr. P. ■ Earle, ."Youth." The judges will be Professor I. Gordon. Dr. G. Mcllraith, and Mr. W. P. Rollings. Beginning at 8 p.m., the speeches will occupy approximately two hours. During the period of the judges' retirement entertainment will be provided by Misses Proctor and McKenzie and Mr. Hills. I

MARKETING PLANS

(By Telegraph —IVess Association)

AUCKLAND, July 29

The annual meeting of the New Zealand Forests Products, Ltd., to market pine forests planted by New Zealand Perpetual Forests, was held today. The chairman, Mr. D. Henry, emphasised that bondholders' contracts had provided for twenty years' maintenance, so that even the oldest trees had still eight years to run, and bondholders might expect that time to elapse before looking for realisation on their investment. However, his company had only been formed just over a year and it was exercising the utmost expedition in its marketing venture. Until the terms of the contract with New Zealand Perpetual Forests for riiaintenance had been assessed and taken over by the new company they could not enter into possession of forest, and to that extent their efforts were being deiayed.

Sir Charles Marr, ot Sydney, was present, and he stated that a majority of the shareholdings were Australian, and he looked upon it as a good investment.

MR. B. ELLIS PRESIDENT

The annual conference 01 the South African War Veterans' Association ot New Zealand this morning elected Mr. B. Ellis, of Dunedin, president of tlie association unopposed. Captain J. J. Clark (Wellington). Colonel G. Mitchell- (Wellington;, and Mr. T. McWhirter (New Plymouth were nominated for the position, but all withdrew in favour of Mr. Ellis. The new president was invested with the insignia of office by the retiring president (Mr. McWhirter), who said it gave him great pleasure to confer the "order of the bullet" on the new president.

Other officers "/ere elected as tol-lows:—-Vice-presidents, Mr. J. V. Scott (Gisborne), Major H. M. Richardson, D.5.0., M.C. (Blenheim), Mr. G. N. Creswell (Chriscchurch), Major P. cie B. Brandon, 0.8. E., V.D. (Wellington.!, Messrs. R. N. Todd (InvercaKgiil), A. E. Bertram (Auckland), H. W. Watt (Tauranga). and T. McWhirter (New Plymouth; committee, Captain J. J. Clark (Wellington), Messrs. A.J. Harper (Hutt), E. Hogg (Levin),, R. H. Aldrich (Wellington), R. Anderson (Wellington), and A. G. Johnston; hon. auditor, Mr. J. L. Arcus; hon. solicitor, the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C.; Dominion secretary, Mr. J...H. E. Tilling; Dominion treasurer, Captain C. F. Bishop; representatives on N.Z.R.S.A., Messrs, J. I. Goldsmith and C. Cowdrey.

A cheerful function commemorating the golden jubilee of the New Zealand Friendly Societies' Mutual Fidelity Guarantee Association was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Clyde Quay, on Wednesday evening. An important feature of the gathering was the tangible recognition by the association of the meritorious service of Bro. C. H. Dement, who had '.performed the onerous duties of chairman of the management committee for forty consecutive years. There were present 160 delegates from friendly societies throughout New Zealand, and felicitous greetings were forwarded by letter from 170 lodges. ■ Bro. Dement was the recipient of a wallet containing a substantial cheque, a suitable presentation also-being made to Mrs. Dement.